The importance of both parents in minimising the exposure of children to Adverse Childhood Experiences (from the recently issued 2018 “Report 1: Mental Illness – Welsh Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) and Resilience Study”)
By MRA-UK:
The Prevalence of Fatherless Children
In previous posts I have presented data on some of the mechanisms which lead to fathers becoming estranged from their children (see Marriage, and Families, Divorce, Cohabitation, and Non-Resident Parents: Where Is The Bias?). Whilst divorce is a significant contributor, it is the decline of marriage which is the dominant cause of fatherlessness. Half of children are now born outside of marriage in the UK. At any time, about one-quarter of dependent-age UK children are not living with their father.



